Lot 79W
An early 18th century provincial longcase clock Humphrey Marsh, Highworth
15 December 2009, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £1,440 inc. premium
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Humphrey Marsh, Highworth
The heavy 10.75 inch square brass dial with cherub and foliate spandrels, signed below the Roman and Arabic chapter ring with bold half-hour markers and inner quarter track, matted centre with subsidiary seconds dial, ringed winding holes and calendar aperture, well sculpted pierced hour hand (minute hand lacking), to the weight-driven movement united by five unusually knopped pillars with anchor escapement and internal countwheel striking on a bell (bell lacking), sold in an associated carved oak longcase 201cm (6ft7in) high.
The heavy 10.75 inch square brass dial with cherub and foliate spandrels, signed below the Roman and Arabic chapter ring with bold half-hour markers and inner quarter track, matted centre with subsidiary seconds dial, ringed winding holes and calendar aperture, well sculpted pierced hour hand (minute hand lacking), to the weight-driven movement united by five unusually knopped pillars with anchor escapement and internal countwheel striking on a bell (bell lacking), sold in an associated carved oak longcase 201cm (6ft7in) high.
Footnotes
The similarity in construction and detail of this clock movement and dial with the Thomas Baker of Blandford (lot 95) is worthy of note.
The pillars are of identical construction with central knopps and rather than fins there is a lipped concave section. The clock dials are both unusually thick suggesting that they may have come from the same original source.
See detail illustration of both movements on lot 95.
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